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I'd love to hear some people's opinions: what's the next reddit? Where will people go? I've been looking at alternatives ever since all the stupid crap with mo

I'd love to hear some people's opinions: what's the next reddit? Where will people go? I've been looking at alternatives ever since all the stupid crap with mods came out (mods messing with submissions, resubmitting under their name, and deleting stuff they didn't agree with) and some of my favorite subreddits started to rot. And now, it feels like Reddit is really falling apart. Any suggestions?

keithwhor 11y ago
Within the next two weeks we're going to see just about every Reddit clone and/or variation that exists spring into action. One of them will be lucky enough to gain enough traction to replace Reddit, though it will take a couple of years for the transition to complete. I have next to no doubt that these are the death throes of Reddit. I'm not personally invested in these politics (though it is fascinating to watch unfold), but what I can say is that I'll gladly move away should the opportunity present itself. What I care about at this point is I would like to consume content and for some reason I can't. So now I'm sitting here writing a comment on Hacker News to publicly showcase my discontent when I could have been enjoying cat pictures. Edit: Reminds me of HipChat. It went down on a workday for a long period of time and I knew about Slack, our engineering team was swapped over by end of day. I don't particularly care why your service is down, whether it's a service outage or a coup, I just care about how long it will be down for and whether or not I can expect this to be a pattern.
- antjanus 11y ago
  I'm sure there will be a hundred clones. I do hope someone will just try a brand new way of doing content and people will be like "Oh yeah! That works really well!" I've been disillusioned with reddit when I saw that the niche subreddits no longer get updated :/ and the bigger subreddits are ruled by an iron fist of mods. The content doesn't refresh as often as I'd like either (in the 2nd tier subreddits, the ones that aren't default but are still really popular). Anyways, all good points. I used HC and Slack both and have to say that they seem almost identical to me.
  - meesterdude 11y ago
    > I do hope someone will just try a brand new way of doing content I am with mine, and I encourage others to follow suite and try different tactics. Reddit is hardly the gold standard; but it is not without it's merits either.

keithwhor 11y ago

Within the next two weeks we're going to see just about every Reddit clone and/or variation that exists spring into action. One of them will be lucky enough to gain enough traction to replace Reddit, though it will take a couple of years for the transition to complete. I have next to no doubt that these are the death throes of Reddit. I'm not personally invested in these politics (though it is fascinating to watch unfold), but what I can say is that I'll gladly move away should the opportunity present itself. What I care about at this point is I would like to consume content and for some reason I can't. So now I'm sitting here writing a comment on Hacker News to publicly showcase my discontent when I could have been enjoying cat pictures. Edit: Reminds me of HipChat. It went down on a workday for a long period of time and I knew about Slack, our engineering team was swapped over by end of day. I don't particularly care why your service is down, whether it's a service outage or a coup, I just care about how long it will be down for and whether or not I can expect this to be a pattern.

antjanus 11y ago
I'm sure there will be a hundred clones. I do hope someone will just try a brand new way of doing content and people will be like "Oh yeah! That works really well!" I've been disillusioned with reddit when I saw that the niche subreddits no longer get updated :/ and the bigger subreddits are ruled by an iron fist of mods. The content doesn't refresh as often as I'd like either (in the 2nd tier subreddits, the ones that aren't default but are still really popular). Anyways, all good points. I used HC and Slack both and have to say that they seem almost identical to me.
- meesterdude 11y ago
  > I do hope someone will just try a brand new way of doing content I am with mine, and I encourage others to follow suite and try different tactics. Reddit is hardly the gold standard; but it is not without it's merits either.